Students

Experimental Sessions. Students helped arrange the first official event for data collection held at the Department of Interpreting and Translation - DIT (Forlì Campus).  

Data collection. Each student ran two small-scale experimental sessions and converted the resulting interactions into annotated XML files.

Dissemination. Students held a presentation on the results of their recruitment strategies during the seminar "AI and Inclusion" at the Department of Interpreting and Translation - DIT (Forlì Campus).

Follow-up email. Students sent an e-mail to those who met the criteria for data collection among the respondents, inviting them to participate to the actual experimental sessions. Those who were not suitable received an email with a PDF on prompting in sign of gratitude.

Recruitment and dissemination strategies. Students created a Microsoft Forms questionnaire investigating the use of chatbots among their peers to map the most popular tools. The questionnaire was made available through:

• An  Instagram post published by the official DIT (Department of Interpreting and Translation) account of the University of Bologna and shared via Instagram stories;
• A WhatsApp message sent to university groups of students from the University of Bologna;
  

Chatbot piloting. Students contributed to testing and evaluating the research protocol by taking up the role of project participants interacting with a pre-defined list of chatbots – ChatGPT, Pi.ai and Deep English.

A collaborative list of chatbots. Students were asked to report and classify promising chatbots based on the following parameters: usability (e.g. platform and language), utility (e.g. function) and response generation.

• Eleonora Cupin 
• Carol Gabriele
• Lucia Galiero
• Arianna Paradisi
• Alessandro Strocchi
• Yasmin Sbai
• Manjinder Thind